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Climate change is one of the most pervasive yet least understood issues of our generation. This book explores the climate issue from its very beginnings through to the end of the 21st Century, looking in depth at the transition challenge we collectively face.
Climate change is one of the most pervasive yet least understood issues of our generation. This book explores the climate issue from its very beginnings through to the end of the 21st Century, looking in depth at the transition challenge we collectively face.
Cet ouvrage rassemble une sélection significative des écrits et discours de Sydney Drell (Environ de 1993 à 2007)
A teenage girl who wants to be popular gets to meet characters from Biblical legends, thanks to a genie, and discuss the issue with them.
At a time when scientific and technological breakthroughs keep our eyes focused on the latest software upgrades or the newest cell-phone wizardry, a group of today's most innovative thinkers are looking beyond the horizon to explore both the promise and the peril of our technological future. Human ingenuity has granted us a world of unprecedented personal power -- enabling us to communicate instantaneously with anyone anywhere on the globe, to transport ourselves in both real and virtual worlds to distant places with ease, to fill our bellies with engineered commodities once available to only a privileged elite. Through our technologies, we have sought to free ourselves from the shackles of nature and become its master. Yet science and technology continually transform our experience and society in ways that often seem to be beyond our control. Today, different areas of research and innovation are advancing synergistically, multiplying the rate and magnitude of technological and societal change, with consequences that no one can predict. Living with the Genie explores the origins, nature, and meaning of such change, and our capacity to govern it. As the power of technology continues to accelerate, who, this book asks, will be the master of whom? In Living with the Genie, leading writers and thinkers come together to confront this question from many perspectives, including: Richard Powers's whimsical investigation of the limits of artificial intelligence; Philip Kitcher's confrontation of the moral implications of science; Richard Rhodes's exploration of the role of technology in reducing violence; Shiv Visvanathan's analysis of technology's genocidal potential; Lori Andrews's insights into the quest for human genetic enhancement; Alan Lightman's reflections on how technology changes the experience of our humanness. These and ten other provocative essays open the door to a new dialogue on how, in the quest for human mastery, technology may be changing what it means to be human, in ways we scarcely comprehend.
This book advocates ethical self-restraint in the realm of corporate tax. It seeks to undermine, and ideally to remove, any self-serving rationalizations that may seductively encourage corporate executives to act without restraint. Nowhere is this more needed than in the world of business regulations, where corporate executives may be tempted to influence the formation, implementation, and reform of the regulatory regime so as to further the interests of their businesses. This includes, most notably, manipulation of corporate-tax law. "This is a ground-breaking book. It is the first book-length statement explaining why managers of business corporations have an ethical obligation to cooperate with tax legislation in corporate income taxation, locally, nationally and globally. This ethical obligation is binding regardless of any potential impact on the value of the corporation." Reuven S. Avi-Yonah, Irwin I. Cohn Professor of Law and Director of International Tax LLM Program, Michigan Law, University of Michigan "At a time when a majority of young people prefer socialism to capitalism and the head of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce warns that companies risk losing their license to operate if income inequalities persist, Professors Hilling and Ostas have written a compelling appeal for managers and their lawyers and accountants to ensure that the corporations they lead or advise live up to their social contract by paying their fair share of taxes. A must-read for business leaders, politicians, ethicists, and activists." Constance E. Bagley, Senior Research Fellow, Yale School of Management, Yale University
"A textbook summary of how international investment law developed over the past fifty years may go something like this. States signed thousands of largely similar international investment agreements (IIAs) to protect the property of their investors abroad. Most of these IIAs allowed foreign investors to sue host states via investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) for treaty breaches. ISDS was barely used until the late 1990s. When ISDS claims finally surged, states realized that their treaties offered greater investment protection than intended. States reacted by narrowing the commitments offered in newly concluded agreements. This backlash against investment arbitration resulted in a "new generation" of IIAs that rebalanced investment protection and host state regulatory autonomy"--